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General American English

• Definition: A term used to refer to varieties of English that are not characterized by a particular dialect trait under discussion. For example, the use of a- prefixing in some rural and Southern dialects may be contrasted with its non0use in "general American English."

  Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes